Animation

Reviews / Votes

"Scott Curtis has assembled a truly valuable volume unified around the ways that shifting labor and economic conditions, technological developments, and aesthetic experimentation continually renewed and remade animation over the years. Each author clearly and convincingly confronts how commercial trends and artisanal alternatives help us understand animation's place in American media culture." - Richard Neupert (author of French Animation History and John Lasseter) "A well-researched survey of American animation, written by leading scholars in the field. With its clear writing style, incorporation of production details, and ample examples, this book will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in theatrical, television, artisanal, and CG animation-and more." - Maureen Furniss (author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics) "Animation is a phenomenal and phenomenally useful survey of animation in the United States. Editor Scott Curtis and his contributors have artfully examined American animation in its many forms-commercial and fine art, analog, and digital, full and limited-and grounded their insights into the art and craft of the cartoon in very specific historical, aesthetic, and technological circumstances. Rich in detail and nuance, the result is a compendium of carefully crafted essays that are an instructive and enjoyable read for animation fans and an excellent companion in the classroom." - Nicholas Sammond (author of Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation)